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MakingHealth CareDecisions

A Report on the Ethical andLegal Implications of InformedConsent in the Patient-Practitioner RelationshipVolume One: ReportOctober 1982President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine andBiomedical and Behavioral Research